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Anglo-Celtic Australian is an ethnic or cultural category, used to describe Australians with British and/or Irish ancestral origins.

Demography

From the beginning of the colonial era until the mid-20th Century, British and/or Irish comprised the vast majority of settlers, and later, post-Federation immigrants coming to Australia. At the 2006 Census of Australia where citizens could self-select their ancestry, 6,283,647 (31.6%) Australians selected English ancestry, 1,803,740 (9.1%) selected Irish ancestry, 1,501,204 (7.6%) selected Scottish, 113,242 (0.7%) selected Welsh, and 5,686 (0.3%) selected British ancestry (respondants could nominate up to two ancestries). Additionally 7,371,823 persons nominated Australian ancestry of which a portion may have ancestral ties to Great Britain and Ireland not otherwise declared
In comparison to the 2000 US Census where respondants selected an ancestry, 24,515,138 (8.7%) selected English, 30,528,492 (10.8%) selected Irish, 4,890,581 (1.7%) selected Scottish, 1,753,794 (0.6%) selected Welsh, and 1,085,720 (0.4%) declared British ancestry.
The United Kingdom remains the leading source of immigrants to Australia. In 2005-06 22,143 persons born in the United Kingdom settled in Australia, representing 21.4% of all migrants. At the 2006 Census (excluding overseas visitors) 1,038,165 persons identified themselves as having been born in the United Kingdom (5.2% of the Australian population), while 50,251 identified themselves as Irish born. Sydney has the largest number of British-born residents (175,166), followed closely by Perth (171,023).

Usage

The term Anglo-Celtic is primarily associated with Australians of British and/or Irish ancestry. The broad term reflects the ethno-cultural composition of post-colonial Australian society, in which English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh components fused into a singular national group.
Some have argued that the term is entirely a product of multiculturalism. Historian John Hirst wrote in 1994: "Mainstream Australian society was reduced to an ethnic group and given an ethnic name: Anglo-Celt."
Other terms like "Anglo", "Anglo-Saxon" or "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic" are used interchangeably with "Anglo-Celtic" (sometimes inaccurately, such as for persons whose lineage to Saxony can't be confirmed or established, or who are of an exclusively Celtic background). The word "skip" (sometimes derogatory) has been used by some ethnic groups in Australia to refer to Anglo-Celtic Australians; the term is in reference to the 1960s television program Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Anglo-Celtic Australian Identity

The emergence of Australian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century diminished the degree in which Anglo-Celtic Australians identified themselves as primarily from their homelands, although many elements of Australian culture and life, from jurisprudence to gardening, are transplanted from British traditions.
Other terms like "Anglo", "Anglo-Saxon" or "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic" are used interchangeably with "Anglo-Celtic" (sometimes inaccurately, such as for persons whose lineage to Saxony can't be confirmed or established, or who are of an exclusively Celtic background).

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